Opinion

To the editor: The 15th Annual Fourth of July reading of the Declaration of Independence at the Jaffrey Meetinghouse was a festive and patriotic occasion enjoyed by a standing-room only audience. The events that followed — open houses at the Little Red Schoolhouse and Melville Academy, the presence of Jaffrey’s antique 1931 Seagrave fire engine and the ice cream social in the Horsesheds — were fitting complements. The sponsoring groups …
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To the editor: The Antrim selectmen once again are breaking the Right to Know law (RSA 91-A). In 2013, they were found guilty of violating the Right to Know law because they were holding secret meetings with the owners of Antrim Wind LLC. Hillsborough Superior Court Judge David Garfunkel said in his ruling, “the Board conducted numerous noticed and unnoticed, non-public meetings while …
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To the editor: Sirs, I think it would be a good idea for your local newspaper to stick to local and state news and leave the national news to the big papers and news stations. We are getting overloaded with silliness enough with the big papers and TV stations, Please don’t add the insensitive stuff to your good local paper. Steve Hoadley Peterborough …
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To the editor: Americans are generally a generous people. To some extent, of course, our generosity is affordable, a sign of our having enough, even having plenty. Generosity shows among ordinary citizens in the way most Americans include people from all foreign countries into our society. Generosity shows …
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The governor’s office has issued a large volume of rhetoric to justify her veto of the budget passed by the House and Senate, much of it deliberately misleading and some of it just not true. Also with her veto we lost much needed funding to combat the rising …
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A surprising revelation has arisen from the slew of recent polls gauging support for the field of Republican presidential hopefuls — Donald Trump is, depending which poll you read, tied for first place with Jeb Bush (Reuters) or the outright frontrunner (USA Today/Suffolk University). And while at first …
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To the editor: R = 0.685 times the square root of (pd) squared, where p is expressed in pounds/square inch, and d = distance. What does that mean to you? For me it’s the end of sleeping well in my home, purchased recently as newlyweds, where my husband …
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When my husband and I gave up our 20-year stretch of corporate-working-lives in Manhattan In April 2011, and moved to a place of soulful-wilderness-living in a log cabin set among the trees in Temple, I began to read …
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To the editor: Why not close RMS for Voting Day? All schools in Spotsylvania, Virginia, are closed on that day, and have been for many, many years -- over 30 that I know of. Mary Ellen Sullivan Spotsylvania, Virginia Editor’s note: Sullivan has family living in Rindge. …
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To the editor: In “Climate Scientists Visit Town” in the June 18 edition, this paper reports eight international “experts in climate change and renewable energy” visited Peterborough’s not-even-plugged-in-yet solar facility and will bring Peterborough’s “example” back to their countries. Ha! One of the visitors was from Nigeria. Peterborough …
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To the editor: I just read Mr. Suokko’s piece featured under “Pipeline Debate.” I am incredulous. The irony. First paragraph. Talk about stretch! He states emphatically that the school in Temple is 2.5 miles from the power line. Well, Arnold, I must correct your fact and inform you …
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To the editor: If there’s any characteristic more dangerous than arrogance in a public official — like a president — it’s arrogance coupled with ignorance, as Donald Trump proved in recent interviews and continues to demonstrate every time he opens his mouth. The man has no real answer …
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To The editor: This is a brief response to Arnold Suokko’s oped in the July 7 paper. I’m impressed that someone with roots in this region cares enough to write, seemingly, defending the pipeline. I asked friends to comment, and I got responses saying 1.) the elementary school …
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